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Students from the Faculty of Environment were second-place winners at this year's Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence Competition (ECCE App Challenge). Congratulations to Ben Woodward, Paramvir Singh, and Gabriel Diniz!
Ben Woodward
Paramvir Singh
Gabriel Diniz
What is the app challenge?
The ECCE App Challenge is an app competition held by Esri Canada to promote innovation, and creativity within the Esri GIS Center for Excellence. Each year three members create an alliance and are tasked to build a powerful app using Esri technology and open data to help solve real-world problems related to a specific theme. Teams are given a week to complete their apps and provide their source code with supporting documents.
Ben, Paramvir, and Gabriel’s team The Tree-O created a mobile and web application TReecorder to help plan biodiverse communities and climate-resilient forests. It is equipped with surveys and GIS workflows to bridge the gap between planners and arborists in their community forest and help the community connect with it. The mobile app allows citizens to identify and learn more about local trees near their region and submit damage reports associated with each tree. It also helps arborists to investigate these damage sightings and allows municipal governments to input tree data into TReecorder.
Visit TReecorder to access their live demo of the app.
A round applause for Ben, Paramvir, and Gabriel for their hard work!
